USGC Sikorsky HH-3F 1477 shares the ramp at New Orleans NAS with Sikorsky HH-52A 1386.

Southern Seaplane has a seaplane facility and small airstrip beside a canal south of New Orleans near Belle Chase. In 1985, their business was primarily flying workers to offshore oil and gas production facilities in the Mississippi Delta not served by helicopters. The fleet was mostly Cessna 185s. The company acquired this DHC-2 Beaver, N53LP, from Dominion Air Lease Ltd. of Toronto in August 1984 (ex-C-GTER) and flew it until March 1990 when it was sold to Lake Union Air Service in Seattle and N91LU. On the date of the photo, the company was also overhauling two Grumman G-44 Widgeons.

VH-CDE started life in Australia in 1958 as VH-CLA with Connellan Airlines at Alice Springs. It was sold in 1960 and reregistered VH-CDE. At the time of the photo it was owned by Nicholas Skyways. It came and went from the register several times over the next 20 years and while still registered in 2017, it was at the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Nowra, New South Wales.